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SELF-CaLTURE 

IN THE 

Americanized 
Encyclopedia Britannica. 



THE STAR SAYINGS 

St. Louis, Mo. 
1895 



Aids to Self-Culture 



AMERICANIZED 

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANN1CA 



HOME EDUCATIONAL CIRCLE 



•Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; 
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out." 

— Herrick. 



THE STAR SAYINGS 

ST. I.OUIS, MO. 

1895 



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5elf-§ulture apd Sueeess 

IN THE 

HOME EDUCATIONAL CIRCLE. 

What is the touchstone of success? Where is the key 
that will unlock the treasures of fortune, the star that 
will guide the wanderer along the rugged pathway to 
the happiness of hopes achieved? 

There have been many answers to these questions 
since in the middle ages the alchemists bent for years 
over the crucible in the vain hope of finding some elixir 
that would transmute base metals into gold, or since 
Ponce de Leon lost his life in the new world in his fool- 
ish quest for the fabled spring whose waters would 
restore to his age the strength and elasticity of van- 
ished youth. 

In these modern days men go on fools' errands after 
fortune, wasting the hours they might devote to work 
and study in chasing some 

WILL=0'=THE=WISP, 

some vagrant phantom which they hope will for them 
transmute the base metals of failure and wasted oppor- 
tunities into the gold of success; but the men who 
succeed and the men who fail alike will say that Knowl- 
edge is Power, and that with no other weapon can the 
young soldier fight the battle of life. Each man who 
reads these lines must admit the truth of this assertion. 
It is the lesson of the times and of all time. But, some 
will say to themselves, u the pathway to knowledge is 
too hard; let others plod along in that dull, stupid way, 

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4 SELF-CULTURE AND SUCCESS IN THE 

I will trust to luck to meet some opportunity that will 
bring me more fortune and success than all their toil- 
in gs." Never was greater mistake. The man who 
never does anything but wait for opportunities will not 
recognize them when he sees them. It is 



WORK AND STUDY 

that sharpen the wits and strengthen the muscles of 
body and mind to meet the opportunity when it comes. 
Luck is seldom a great factor in life. The towering 
genius who can disregard ordinary rules and carve out 
his own fortunes by mere force of personality is only 
one of hundreds of thousands; he may appear but once 
in a century. 

The man who stops a runaway horse in the street, 
gaining credit and, perhaps, advancement, has to have 
something more than the opportunity. He has to have 
the quickness of eye and hand, the courage and strength 
that come only with training. The falling of an apple 
at his feet revealed to Sir Isaac Newton in a flash the 
great principle of gravitation, which revolutionized 
science; but he had been preparing himself unconsciously 
for that moment by years of study of the laws of matter. 
Apples had fallen at the feet of other men before Newton t 
but they spoke no such ringing lesson, because the other 
men had not the training to hear it. Sir Samuel Brown 
conceived the idea of the suspension bridge from seeing 
a spider's web swinging in the breeze, but he had been 
a student of engineering and was then devoting himself 
to the study of bridge building. He was ready! 

Some may admit the value of knowledge, of scientific 
training in any pursuit of life, but despair of attaining 
it because of lack of means, lack of time, absence of 
early educational advantages and fancied lack of ability. 
To all such and to all others who have the 



HOME EDUCATIONAL CIRCLE. 5 

AMBITION FOR MENTAL IMPROVEMENT 

and for betterment in life which every well regulated 
man should have, we wish to point out a Royal Road to 
Knowledge. We shall show them the pathway and all 
they will need to contribute to the task will be the 
attributes of industry and perseverance. ' ' Industry and 
perseverance." Few words are more pregnant with 
meaning. Little real success was ever won in this 
world without them. Stephenson worked for 15 years 
in making the first successful locomotive. It took 
Watt 30 years to perfect his invention of the con- 
denser for steam engines. Buff on, the famous naturalist, 
rewrote his "Epochs of Nature" eleven times before he 
was satisfied to send it to the printer. These are but a 
few of the thousands of instances that might be cited 
to show that great works, great ideas and great inven- 
tions were the result of long-continued labor. It should 
not be forgotten either that the labor was that of men 
who had a definite aim in view, and devoted all their 
energies to following out that particular line of effort. 
Watt could never have invented his steam engine if he 
had not had a very clear idea of what he wanted to do 
and stuck to it manfully to the end. It is certain, then, 
that something else is needed besides industry and per- 
severance to reach the longed-for goal of success, and 
that is, a definite purpose. Part of the advantage of 
the 

ROYAL ROAD TO LEARNING 

that we here point out is the aid it will give those 
who have no fixed aim in life in selecting one that is 
suited to their taste and energies. It cannot be disputed 
that men work best and achieve the best results if 
they take an active interest in the professional, com- 
mercial or industrial task in which they are engaged. 



6 SELF-CULTURE AND SUCCESS IN THE 

If they look upon their work as a drudgery, to be laid 
aside with a feeling of relief at the earliest possible 
moment, they will rarely be able to accomplish any 
lasting good to themselves or to humanity. 

It is of the first importance to the young man starting 
out in life to select an occupation that will be congenial 
and inspire his best energies. But, knowing nothing of 
the world, he too frequently leaves this selection to 
others, or to chance, only to find out later that he has 
made a mistake. Many men who find that they have 
made this mistake, in selecting a career, weakly succumb 
to circumstances and make no effort to surmount them. 
But it is never too late to learn, and a perusal of the 
following pages will show that this royal road to 
learning is valuable, not only in guiding the first 
footsteps of the beginner aright, but in enabling the 
older traveler in the caravan of life who has taken the 
wrong road to reach the right one where his tastes and 
energies will have free plaj r , and he ma}' develop the 
best that is in him for himself and for others. 



YOU TEACH YOURSELF. 

But do not imagine that because this is the royal 
road to learning it is a smooth descending highway; 
that you may follow it as easily as one may float down 
a river. It is a royal road because it teaches you to 
teach yourself, and of all culture, self-culture is the high- 
est and most valuable. What you master yourself 
remains with you longest, because it becomes part of 
yourself, a weapon fitted to your hand and brain for 
the struggle of life. " The best culture," said a scholar 
of ripe experience, "is not obtained from teachers when 
at school or college so much as by our own diligent 
self-education when we have become men." 



HOME EDUCATIONAL CIRCLE. 7 

Valuable as that school and college training is, it is 
not necessary in the scheme of life of one who will fol- 
low the path to the royal road to knowledge to be 
laid down in these pages. Some of the most successful 
leaders in every profession and every industry have 
been what are called "self-made men," because they 
had no advantages of early training and no one to give 
them a start in life. Henry Wilson, who became vice- 
president of the United States, was a poor boy whose 
parents apprenticed him to a farmer when he was ten 
years old. And yet, in spite of the hard work of the 
farm Henry Wilson found time before he was twenty- 
one to read a thousand books and lay the foundation 
of the ripe learning that gave him power and promi- 
nence in public affairs. 



BETTER CHANCE THAN LINCOLN'S. 

The great beauty and advantage of this royal 
road to learning is that the journey may be prosecuted 
along with the daily task of life, whatever it may be. 
The man or boy engaged in daily occupation for the 
support of himself or of others will find through an 
earnest effort to seize the opportunities pointed out in 
these pages, far better advantages than Henry Wilson 
had on the farm, or than Abraham Lincoln had, study- 
ing in his cabin by the light of a pine knot after a hard 
day's work at the most irksome tasks. We cannot all 
be Abraham Lincolns or Henry Wilsons; a Watt, 
a Stephenson or an Edison; but we can all make the 
most of ourselves and the talent that has been given us. 
The man or youth who does not study to improve his 
mind, to increase his stock of information, is like a man 
who, with a large sum of money, does nothing with it r 
does not go into business or put it out at interest, 
but keeps it in his private coffers. His fund will grad- 



8 SELF-CULTURE AND SUCCESS IN THE 

ually disappear and he will find himself, in time, as 
poor as his neighbor without anything. In the same 
way the man who does not improve his mind by study, 
strengthen his skill and knowledge of his trade or pro- 
fession by constant research, will find himself poor in 
the end, far outstripped in the race of life by the man 
who started with no more natural intelligence but 
who seized and improved every opportunity to add to 
his store of learning and enrich his mental capacity. 

AN HOUR OR TWO A DAY 

at the work bench, at the desk, or at the fireside at 
home, devoted to study, will repay interest a hundred 
fold on the investment. "Take care of the cents and 
the dollars will take care of themselves," is an old say- 
ing. Let the economist of time take care of the minutes 
and he will find that the hours are not wasted. Do not 
shrink from any fancied difficulties, but realize how 
incomparably easier is the task of acquiring knowledge 
on any special or on general subjects in these days of 
good books and cheap books, than when Lincoln and 
Wilson surmounted the greater difficulties that con- 
fronted them. 

The student who decides to enroll himself in The 
Home Educational Circle, need not fear that after years 
of study he must shun comparison with the graduates 
of schools and universities, with those whose means 
and leisure may have enabled them to employ expensive 
tutors. He who possesses a copy of that great work, 
"The Americanized Encyclopedia Britannica" and 
utilizes the following hints to its intelligent study, need 
fear no comparison with the product of expensive 
university training. He will have levied tribute on the 
brightest minds of the age and of all ages. The concen- 
trated 



ROME EDUCATIONAL CIRCLE. 9 

LEARNING OF THE CENTURIES 

will be placed at his disposal — the ripest thoughts of all 
philosophers, the tenets of all theologies, the principles 
of every science, the rules of every profession and the 
practical details of ever}- industry. The world will be 
his curriculum and its brightest and best thinkers will 
be his instructors. The rise and fall of nations, the tri- 
umphs of state-craft and diplomacy, the influence on 
action and thought of great discoveries in science, will 
all be laid bare to his delighted view. The growth of 
the arts, the latest improvements in handicrafts, the 
principles of law, of medicine, of commerce and of agri" 
culture will be unfolded in their due and proper order 
before him. The wealth of the world will be his, from 
which to pluck the jewels he admires the most to set in 
his own crown of knowledge. 

Let not the wide extent of the field, wide as life 
itself, deter the beginner. It is for him to pick and 
choose. He can set himself the ambitious but glori- 
ous task of acquiring something of universal knowl- 
edge, or he can select a field of research in which he will 
find most pleasure and profit. The great advantage of 
this field of study is the prodigality and thoroughness 
of its resources. The student of law or medicine, the 
embryo architect, artist, botanist, farmer, mechanic or 
merchant, can not only find here the principles that will 
fit him for the prosecution of his chosen line of endeavor 
but can acquire 

THE BROAD CULTURE 

given by general knowledge that will sharpen his facul- 
ties and increase his strength in his special field. 

The Americanized Encyclopedia Britannica is an 
inexhaustible mine of wealth to the earnest student 
from which he may delve at will for the bright nuggets of 



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the gold of wisdom. It is an endless orchard in which 
he may wander, plucking from every variety of the tree 
of knowledge the ripe fruit nourished by the work and 
thought of all the sages of the universe. 

Assuming that the student has not determined for 
himself the vocation he desires to follow in life; or that 
having reached mature years his vocation is fixed to 
his satisfaction and that he desires to gain knowledge 
for his own sake rather than any especial use to which 
he might put it, it will be instructive to append a brief 
list of some of the subjects he will find discussed in the 
great works, all of them thoroughly, some of them 
exhaustively, and all by specialists who are masters 
of the particular subject of which each of them treats. 
The list does not begin to exhaust the wealth of Brit- 
annica, it is no more than a bouquet of flowers picked 
from an extensive garden. But the selection will speak 
for itself. Here it is: 



GENERAL HOME STUDIES. 



Aeronautics, 

^Esthetics, 

Agriculture, 

Alchemy, 

Ambassador, 

Ambulance, 

American Literature, 

Ammunition, 

Anatomy, 

Animals, 

Anthropology, 

Aquarium, 

Archaeology, 

Architecture, 

Argonauts, 

Arithmetic, 

Army, 

Arsenal, 

Art, 



Artesian Wells, 

Assaying, 

Astronomy, 

Balance of Power, 

Ballot, 

Banking, 

Battle, 

Baths, 

Bibliography, 

Bimetallism, 

Biology, 

Birds, 

Bookkeeping, 

Botany, 

Building, 

Cannibalism, 

Carbonari, 

Carthage, 

Catacombs, 



Census, 

China, 

Chronology, 

Charter, 

Charta, Magna, 

Condottieri, 

Corea, 

Communism, 

Confederate States, 

Cremation, 

Cryptography, 

Darwinian Theory, 

Dietetics, 

Diplomacy, 

Distillation, 

Drama, 

Drawing, 

Dream, 

Dynamics, 



HOME EDUCATIONAL CIRCLE. 



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Earth, 

Education, 

Elections, 

Electricity, 

England, Language 

and Literature, 
Ethics, 
Evolution, 
Exchange, 
Extradition, 
Finance, 
Fine Arts, 
Forestry, 
Free Masonry, 
Free Trade, 
Genealogy, 
Geodesy, 
Geography, 
Geology, 
Grammar, 
Greenback Party, 
Herbarium, 
Histology, 
History, 
Horticulture, 
Industrial Exhibitions 
Know Nothings, 
Logic, 
Magnetism, 
Mechanics, 
Mensuration, 



Metallurgy, 

Metaphysics, 

Meteorology, 

Microscopy, 

Mineralogy, 

Monroe Doctrine, 

Mound Builders, 

Municipality, 

Mythology, 

National Debt, 

Navigation, 

Numismatics, 

Optics, 

Ornithology, 

Painting, 

Philology, 

Philosophy, 

Phonetics, 

Photography, 

Phrenology, 

Physical Science, 

Physiology, 

Pneumatics, 

Polar Regions, 

Political Conventions, 

Political Economy, 

Population, 

Prison Systems, 

Prohibition Party, 

Public Health, 

Public Lands, 



Pyrotechny, 

Railways, 

Registration, 

Republican Party, 

Sanitary Science, 

Shorthand, 

Signal Service, 

Slavery, 

Sleep, 

Sociology, 

State's Rights, 

Statistics, 

Tariff, 

Taxidermy, 

Telegraphy, 

Telephone, 

Telescope, 

Theology, 

Tournaments, 

Treason, 

Treaties, 

Ultimatum, 

Vandals, 

Vegetable Kingdom, 

Veterinary Science, 

Veto, 

Viticulture, 

Whig and Tory, 

Whig Party, 

Zoology. 



The reader will soon discover that the subjects given 
in the above list are general titles, covering extended 
fields of inquiry. Many of the articles like those on 
"banking," " sculpture," "political economy," " anat- 
omy," "mechanics," "electricity," etc., are followed 
through all their ramifications with full treatises on co- 
ordinate or subordinate themes. The student can select 
from the best topics which appeal to his fancy or are 
germane to his daily duties, feeling assured that even a 
cursory reading, diligently followed up, will widen his 



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information, quicken his intelligence and, best of all, 
increase his thirst for knowledge, for the appetite for 
learning grows on what it feeds. A continued course 
of reading will strengthen the student, be he young or 
old, for the battle of life which is yearly growing more 
difficult because of the increase of competition in every 
field of endeavor. He will realize to the full the truth 
of the saying that " learning is wealth to the poor, an 
honor to the rich, an aid to the young and a support 
and comfort to the aged." 

If the adult student does not find an inspiration to a 
new and more congenial line of industry, he will find 
abundant help to increased power and ability in his 
chosen calling. The increased intelligence' he will be able 
to bring to his task will bring golden returns in increased 
satisfaction and in increased remuneration. 

It will not be amiss to emphasize again the great dual 
advantages of the study of the Americanized Encyclo- 
pedia Britannica through the guidance of the Home 
Educational Circle— first, the study can be prosecuted at 
the home, or even at the work-shop, without the aid of 
expensive teachers or apparatus; second, the self 
culture which the scholar acquires by studying for him- 
self, digging out for himself the great truths of nature, 
of science, of production and of commerce, is the best 
culture of all. What a man learns in that w ay sticks 
to him. He does not forget it like lessons learned by 
rote at school. Let the student not forget that the 
highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge 
of ourselves. 

THE UNIVERSAL UNIVERSITY 

is open, then, and all are welcome. There is no bar of 
age, sex or condition. Man is never too young nor too 
old to learn. Dr. Priestley was 40 years old when his 
attention was directed to the peculiar action of gases 



HOME EDUCATIONAL CIRCLE. 13 

escaping from a beer vat, and he began the studies 
which resulted in his important discoveries in chemistry. 
Socrates learned to play musical instruments in his old 
age, and Cato was eighty when he studied the Greek 
language. Izaak Walton was ninety when he wrote his 
immortal work, " The Complete Angler," and thousands 
of other men have done their best work late in life. 
Genius sometimes blossoms late in life, and no man 
should let his years discourage him from learning. 

But, after all, the world is for the young, and it is to 
the young that we must address our first instructions. 

YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT. 

Boys, and girls too, who have life and the world 
before you, do not let the moments fly idly by. Life 
seems long, but there is much to accomplish. Youth is 
the golden age for work and for study as well as for 
play, and in after years each wasted hour may cause 
you unavailing regret. % 

Whatever you know, there is much more to learn; 
whatever your condition, you may better it. If you 
are poor and can afford little money and less time 
for study, you are no worse off than thousands of the 
wisest and wealthiest memof the day who sprang from 
poor beginnings. Edison studied telegraphy while a 
newsboy, and electricity when a telegraph operator. 
Lincoln and Grant and Garfield were poor boys, and 
your condition is incomparably better than was theirs, 
because in the Americanized Encyclopedia Britannica 
you have an unrivaled text book, a collection of the 
wisdom of the ages ready at your hand, while they had 
to trust to scattered and meagre sources of information. 

They, and others like them, though, had industry and 
a determination to succeed, which are qualities far more 
to be desired than genius. Bring such qualities with 



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you to the study of the Britannica and you cannot fail 
to win your way triumphantly in the battle of life- 
Even if you could fail, your failure would be soothed by 
the knowledge you would have gained, for learning 
in itself is one of the highest of earthly goods. But 

YOU WILL NOT FAIL, 

for an honest prosecution of the courses of study which 
will be marked out for you will be a positive insurance 
against failure. 

If you have not made up your mind as to the vocation 
in life you wish to pursue, a study of some of the 
subjects mentioned under ''General Home Studies" 
will help to form your choice, or correct a choice un- 
wisely made. 

In connection with those studies, a perusal of the 
lives of men who have won fame in different walks of 
life, who have made the world richer by their writings 
and discoveries, will be found of fascinating interest. 
They, too, had their troubles to bear, their disappoint- 
ments to meet, and obstacles to overcome, and the 
courage with which they overcame, them is one of the 
most instructive lessons in life. 

It may be wise for the young student to enroll him- 
self first in the biography class, for in the life of some 
chemist, architect, engineer, lawyer, poet or physician 
he may find an impulse stimulating him irresistibly to 
follow the same path in life. 

Many of the hundreds of biographies contained in the 
Britannica are character sermons of the strongest kind 
which no young man can read without being deeply 
impressed by their lessons. A good character is as 
valuable a possession as great learning. To mention 
some biographies that will splendidly illustrate desir- 
able elements of character, we recommend — 



HOME EDUCATIONAL CIRCLE. 15 

SOME CHARACTER SERMONS. 

For lessons of diligence, application and perseverance, 
read the lives of Benjamin Franklin, Wellington, Far- 
aday, Garfield, Knight, Cobden, H. Miller, Newton, 
Scott, Hume, BufFon, Daguerre, Par£, Herschel, Gains- 
borough and Grant, 

To learn of gallant struggles against poverty, sick- 
ness and disaster, we advise you to read the lives of 
Palissy, Hugh Miller, Galileo, Burritt, Carlyle, Bunyan, 
Tasso, Arkwright, Jacquard, Sir Humphrey Davy, 
Faraday, Stephenson, Ary Scheffer, Franklin and 
Andrew Johnson. 

For examples of energy, promptitude and hardi- 
hood, look into the biographies of Napoleon, Peter the 
Great, Saladin, Murat, Sheridan, Blaine, Ney, Boulton, 
Richelieu, Juarez, John Brown, Wellington, H. M. 
Stanley, Clive, Fr. Xavier, Nelson, Cromwell, A.Jackson 
and R. E. Lee. 

For the manly qualities of patience and fortitude in 
reverses, peruse the lives of Columbus, Hampden, 
Dante, Raleigh, Trenck, Kossuth, Sir R. Peel, Tocque- 
ville, Watt, Bottgher, J. Hunter, Audubon, Layard, 
Addison, Harvey, Henry Wilson, C. Lorraine, Flax- 
man, West and Pugin. 

Pleasant instances of cheerfulness and equanimity 
of temper may be found in the lives of Goldsmith, John- 
son, Sydney Smith, Lord Palmers ton and Lincoln. 

Lessons of integrity and uprightness of principle are 
shown in the careers of Diogenes, Newton, Burke, Dr. 
Arnold, Scott, Sir T. More, W. Chambers, Howard, 
Handel, Loyola, Horner, Bergh, Emmett, Thierry (A.), 
Canning, Wilberforce, Stonewall Jackson. 

Method, precision, and painstaking — Poussin, 
Angelo, Cuvier, Titian, Napier, Wordsworth, Brougham, 
Macaulay, Wellington, Pope, W. Irving, Cecil, Disraeli. 



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And for the supreme lessons of purity of life and 
nobility of motive, examine the lives of Wilberforce, 
Greeley, Lafayette, Garrison, Whittier and other illus- 
trious personages of our own and foreign lands. 

Some we have here named might be catalogued, 
indeed, as types of every excellence that should adorn 
human character. Such are our own Washington and 
Benjamin Franklin, but even the youngest student will 
see how hard it is to attempt a biographical classifica- 
tion on these lines. 



THEIR APPLICATION. 

By the application of these examples, joined to the 
influence of home, where they are studied, the earnest, 
resolute youth can correct the defects of his own char- 
acter by consciously and unconsciously forming it on 
the best models. At the same time he will be develop- 
ing his intellect in every direction. In reading of the life- 
work of an explorer or navigator he will be learning 
something of geography, and of commerce; in following 
the history of a chemist he will be learning something 
of chemistry from a personal standpoint, always the 
most interesting manner of approaching any science. 
It will be strange indeed if some biography does not 
direct the attention of the learner to some line of study 
or of action which will become his life-work. 

We give, then, some partial lists of men, whose his- 
tories appear in the Britannica, who have achieved 
eminence in some form of endeavor. The classes into 
which they are divided are by no means all that might 
be given, and the list is but a small proportion of the 
names which might be taken from the pages of this 
incomparable work, but it will do very well for a begin- 
ning and the young student can easily prosecute his 
inquiries farther in any direction. 



HOME EDUCATIONAL CIRCLE. 



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STUDIES— BIOGRAPHICAL. 





ASTRONOMERS. 




Arago, 


Halley, 


La Place, 


Aristotle, 


Herschel, 


Leverrier, 


Bailly, 


Hind, 


Newton, 


Copernicus, 


Huyghens, 


Piazzi, 


Encke, 


Kepler, 


Tycho Brahe. 


Galileo, 


Lagrange, 

BOTANISTS. 




Alpini, 


Dodonaeus, 


Huxley, 


Buffon, 


Goldsmith, 


Linnaeus, 


Bartram, 


Gray, 


Pliny, 


Cuvier, 


Hooker, 


Rousseau, 


Darwin, 


Humboldt, 

CHEMISTS. 


Tyndall. 


Bacon, Roger, 


Faraday, 


Paracelsus, 


Boyle, 


Gay-Lussac, 


Pasteur, 


Berzelius, 


Newton, 


Playfair, 


Dal ton, 


Lavoisier, 


Priestley, 


Davy, 


Liebig, 

DRAMATISTS. 


Silliman. 


^schylus, 


Dumas, fils, 


Racine, 


Aristophanes, 


Foote, 


Sardou, 


Beaumarchais, 


Goldsmith, 


Schiller, 


Beaumont & Fletcher 


, Jonson, 


Sheridan, 


Cibber, Colley, 


Knowles, 


Sophocles, 


Congreve, 


Kotzebue, 


Van Brugh, 


Corneille, 


Molere, 


Wycherley. 


Dekker, 


Plautus, 




EXPLORERS AND NAVIGATORS. 


Amerigo Vespucci, 


De Soto, 


La Salle, 


Baker, 


Drake, 


Ledyard, 


Balboa, 


Du Chaillu, 


Livingstone, 


Belzoni, 


Franklin, 


Mackenzie, 


Blake, 


Fremont, 


Nordenskiold, 


Bowditch, 


Frobisher, 


Parry, 


Cabots, The, 


Gam a, Vasconda, 


Scoresby, 


Cortez, 


Hayes, 


Speke, 


Columbus, 


Hudson, 


Stanley, 


Cook, 


Kane, 


Tasman. 


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GEOLOGISTS. 




Agassiz, 


Hayden, 


Powell, 


Buffon, 


Hutton, 


Pythagoras 


Cuvier, 


Lamarck, 


Strabo, 


Darwin, 


Lyell, 


Thomson, 


Dawson, 


Miller, 


Tyndall. 


Forbes, 


Newberry, 

HISTORIANS. 




Bancroft, 


Herodotus, 


Niebuhr, 


Bryce, 


Hume, 


Plutarch, 


Buckle, 


Irving, 


Prescott, 


Carlyle, 


Knight, 


Sismondi, 


Froissart, 


Layard, 


Tocqueville 


Froude, 


Levy, 


Tacitus, 


Gibbon, 


Macaulay, 


Thucydides, 


Grote, 


Montesquieu, 


Voltaire, 


Guizot, 


Michelet, 


Xenophon. 


Hazlitt, 


Motley, 






INVENTORS AND MECHANICIANS. 


Archimedes, 


Daguerre, 


Palissy, 


Arkwright, 


Davy, 


Rumford, 


Bell, 


Edison, 


Siemens, 


Borden, 


Ericsson, 


Stephenson, 


Boyle, 


Fulton, 


Telford, 


Brunei, 


Gutenberg, 


Watt, 


Bunsen, 


Morse, 


Whitworth. 


Colt, 








JURISTS AND LAWYERS. 


Bentham, 


Curran, 


Maine, 


Black, 


Douglas, 


Mansfield, 


Blackstone, 


Eldon, 


Marshall, 


Brougham, 


Erskine, 


Morgan, 


Butler, 


Fuller, 


Stephens, 


Calhoun, 


Fox, 


Story, 


Campbell, 


Hobbes, 


Taney, 


Chase, 


Jay, 


Ulpianus, 


Choate, 


Kent, 


Webster. 


Clay, 


Lyndhurst, 





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MUSICIANS. 




Auber, 


Gounod, 


Scarlatti, 


Bach, 


Halevy, 


Spohr, 


Beethoven, 


Handel, 


Schubert, 


Benedict, 


Haydn, 


Stevenson, 


Bennett, 


Mendelssohn, 


Strauss, 


Boildieu, 


Meyerbeer, 


Sullivan, 


Berlioz, 


Moore, 


Tartini, 


Cherubini, 


Mozart, 


Verdi, 


Chopin, 


Offenbach, 


Vogler, 


Cimarosa, 


Rossini, 


Wagner, 


Corelli, 


Rubinstein, 


Weber. 




NOVELISTS. 




Balzac, 


Gautier, 


Reade, 


Bronte, 


Grimm, 


Richter, 


Cervantes, 


Howells, 


Scott, 


Cooper, 


Hugo, 


Smollett, 


Daudet, 


Irving, 


Sterne, 


De Foe, 


Kingsley, 


Stevenson, 


Dickens, 


Le Sage, 


Sue, 


Dumas, 


Lever, 


Swift, 


Edge worth, 


Lytton, 


Thackeray, 


Eliot, 


Marryat, 


Tolstoi, 


Fielding, 


Payn, 

ORATORS. 


Trollope. 


Adams, J. Q., 


Cobden, 


Grattan, 


Antony, Mark, 


Conkling, 


Hayne, 


Beecher, 


Danton, 


Henry, 


Bossuet, 


Demosthenes, 


Loyson, 


Bright, 


Depew, 


Mirabeau, 


Burke, 


Disraeli, 


O'Connell, 


Calhoun, 


Douglas, 


Pitt, 


Chatham, 


Everett, 


Webster, 


Cicero, 


Fox, 


Whitefield. 


Clay, 


Gladstone, 

PAINTERS. 




M. Angelo, 


Cimabue, 


Correggio, 


Apelles, 


Constant, 


David, 


Botticelli, 


Corot, 


Delacroix,, 



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Delaroche, 


Leonardo da Vinci, 


Stuart, 


Diirer, 


Murillo, 


Teniers, 


Gavarni, 


Meissonier, 


Titian, 


Greuze, 


Raphael, 


Turner, 


Giotto, 


Rembrandt, 


Vandyke, 


Hogarth, 


Reynolds, 


Velasquez, 


Holbein, 


Rossetti, 


Watteau, 


Hunt, 


Ruysdael, 


West. 


Landseer, 


Rubens, 

PATRIOTS. 




Adams, Samuel, 


Hampden, 


Lincoln, 


Alfred, 


Herminius, 


Mazzini, 


Barneveldt, 


Joan of Arc, 


Pym, 


Bolivar, 


La Fayette, 


Toussaint L'Ouverture, 


Bozzaris, 


Kosciusko, 


Wallace, 


Garibaldi, 


Kossuth, 


Winkelried. 



PHILOSOPHERS. 



Apuleius, 


D'Alembert, 


Plato, 


Aristippus, 


Epictetus, 


Pythagoras, 


Aristotle, 


Epicurus, 


Ricardo, 


Aurelius Antoninus, Fichte, 


Richter, 


Bakunin, 


Fourier, 


Saint Simon, 


Bastiat, 


Hegel, 


Schelling, 


Berkeley, 


Hobbes, 


Schopenhauer, 


Cairnes, 


Hume, 


Seneca, 


Cato, 


Lao-tsze, 


Smith, 


Comte, 


Lassalle, 


Socrates, 


Cousin, 


Lessing, 


Spinoza, 


Confucius, 


Liebnitz, 


Whately. 




PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. 


Abercrombie, 


Beyer, 


Hunter, 


Abernethy, 


Celsus, 


Huygens, 


iEsculapius, 


Forbes, 


Jenner, 


Avicenna, 


Galen, 


Owen, 


Agnew, 


Gall, 


Paracelsus, 


Baillie, 


Hahnemann, 


Pasteur, 


Bell, 


Haller, 


Pliny. 


Bichat, 


Harvey, 





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Addison, 


Cowper, 


Milton, 


Anacreon, 


Dante, 


Moore, 


Ariosto, 


Dry den, 


Petrarch, 


Bellman, 


Firdousi, 


Poe, 


Beranger, 


Gay, 


Pope, 


Brownings, The, 


Goethe, 


Schiller, 


Bryant, 


Goldsmith, 


Shakspeare, 


Burns, 


Hafiz, 


Shelley, 


Butler, 


Heine, 


Spenser, 


Byron, 


Homer, 


Tasso, 


Camoens, 


Hood, 


Tennyson, 


Campbell, 


Horace, 


Uhland, 


Catullus, 


Jonson, 


Virgil, 


Chatterton, 


Keats, 


Wieland, 


Chaucer, 


Longfellow, 


Wordsworth. 


Coleridge, 


Lowell, 

SCIENTISTS. 




Agassiz, 


Darwin, 


Lubbock, 


Ampere, 


Descartes, 


Layard, 


Audubon, 


Faraday, 


Muller, 


Brewster, 


Guyot, 


Napier, 


Bunsen, 


Huxley, 


Pascal, 


D'Alembert, 


La Grange, 


Talbot, 


D'Anville, 


Legendre, 

SCULPTORS. 


Tyndall. 


Angelo, Michael, 


Donatello, 


Houdon, 


Bartholdi, 


Flaxman, 


Phidias, 


Canova, 


Goujon, 


Powers, 


Cellini, 


Hosmer, 

SOLDIERS. 


Thorwaldsen. 


Alexander, 


Custer, 


Hannibal, 


Attila, 


Epaminondas, 


Jackson, ' 'Stonewall, 


Belisarius, 


Eugene, 


Kearney, Phil., 


Blucher, 


Frederick, 


Lee, R. E., 


Caesar, 


Genghiz Khan, 


Marlborough, 


Charlemagne, 


Godfrey de Bouillon, 


MacMahon, 


Coligni, 


Gordon, 


Moore, Sir John, 


Cromwell, 


Grant, 


Moreau, 


Conde\ 


Gustavus Adolphus, 


Moltke, 



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Napoleon, 


Sheridan, 


Washington, 


Nelson, 


Sherman, 


Wellington, 


Ney, 


Themistocles, 


William the Conqueror, 


Pizarro, 


Turenne, 


Wolseley, 


Sulla, 


Wallenstein, 

STATESMEN. 


Xenophon. 


Adams, John, 


Disraeli, 


Mirabeau, 


Aristides, 


Derby, E., 


Morris, Robert', 


Benton, 


Fillmore, 


Palmerston, 


Bismarck, 


Franklin, 


Parnell, 


Blaine, 


Gallatin, 


Peel. 


Bright, 


Gambetta, 


Pitt, 


Brougham, 


Garfield, 


Randolph, 


Burke, 


Gladstone, 


Richelieu, 


Canning, 


Hamilton, Alexander, 


, Salisbury, 


Capri vi, 


Henry, 


Seward, 


Cavour, 


Jackson, 


Sumner, 


Choiseul, 


Jefferson, 


Talleyrand, 


Clive, 


Macchiavelli, 


Thiers, 


Clarendon, 


Madison, 


Washington, 


Cobden, 


Mazarin, 


Walpole. 


Dalhousie, 


Metternich, 





THEOLOGIANS AND RELIGIOUS WRITERS. 



A Kempis, 


Everett, 


Pascal, 


Aquinas, 


Fuller, 


Parker, 


Athanasius, 


Gibbon, 


Savonarola, 


Augustine, S., 


Huss, 


Swedenborg, 


Beecher, 


Knox, 


Taylor, 


Bossuet, 


Luther, 


Watts, 


Calvin, 


Melancthon, 


Wesley, 


Collier, J., 


Mohammed, 


Wycliffe, 


Cranmer, 


Newman, 


Zoroaster, 


Erasmus, 


Origen, 


Zwingli. 



Readers of the gentler sex need not be told that some 
of the most noted names in history have been those of 
women who, as artists, authors or rulers have by force 
of genius attracted and held the world's attention. 
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of a few of the many women who have won renown 
by their intellect, or reverence and love by softer, diviner 
qualities: 

GIFTED OR FAMOUS WOMEN. 



Anne of Austria, 
Aspasia, 
Austin, Jane, 
Bonheur, Rosa, 
Bremer, Fredrika, 
Bronte, Charlotte, 
Browning, E. B. B., 
Catharine de Medici, 
Catharine, Empress, 
Cenci, Beatrice, 



Corday, Charlotte, 
D'Arblay, Mme., 
Dudevant, Mme., 
Eliot, George, 
Elizabeth, Queen, 
Genlis, Mme. de, 
Grey, Lady Jane, 
Hypatia, 
Joan of Arc, 
Marie Antoinette, 



Maria Theresa, 
Mary Stuart, Queen, 
Nightingale, Florence, 
Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 
Pocahontas, 
Roland, Mme., 
Sappho, 

Sevigne, Mme. de, 
Stael, Mme. de, 
Washington, Martha. 



"Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footsteps in the sands of time." 



Longfellow's familiar verse may well recur to the 
student who peruses the life histories of the renowned per- 
sons whose names have been given in the preceding list, 
or any considerable number of them. Very few of 
them all had any exceptional advantages to start with. 
What marked them as men set apart from their fellows, 
the millions who have gone to their graves leaving no 
monuments of great achievements behind them, was 
chiefly their fixedness of purpose and the untiring 
energy with which they carried it out ; in other words, 
their willingness and capacity for work. " Genius is 
infinite capacity for taking pains," according to one 
definition, and if the student can learn from these biog- 
raphies the lessons of perseverance and also of patience, 
they will be well on the high road to success. They, too, 
can leave behind them footprints in the sands of time. 
They must not expect success in a moment; it usually 
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years of failure to free Scotland from English rule, 
hunted for his life, lay in hiding in a cave where he saw 
a spider trying to clamber up the bare wall. Six times 
the spider renewed the task, each time falling back to 
the ground, but the seventh time succeeded. Bruce/ 
who had in despair determined to flee from his country, 
took the lesson to heart, made one more effort and won. 
While reading the lives of these men the student will 
be insensibly tempted to investigate the subjects they 
were interested in, and in the list of " General Home 
Studies/' given on a preceding page, he will find a 
variety to select from, or can turn directly to the pages 
of the Encyclopedia, where all subjects are arranged in 
alphabetical order. He can take courses in history, 
geography, astronomy, geology, chemistry, literature, 
architecture, agriculture and a host of other sciences 
and arts, and in so doing doubtless will, almost without 
intention, select the particular pursuit which he desires 
to make his life work. Let him remember that all 
honest work is honorable and that success in any line 
of work is not to be despised. 



RECREATIONS. 

But perhaps so much talk of work may tire the young 
student and there are scores of healthy amusements 
which, -when indulged in to a rational extent, are of 
actual benefit to the worker by relaxing his mind or 
strengthening his body. When one's occupation is 
sedentary, as that of a student, a professional man or 
many artisans, active exercise is needed daily to keep 
the body in trim for its work. The Britannica is as 
complete in this direction as in all others and gives 
descriptions of many sports which can be indulged in to 
advantage by the student. Following is a partial list: 



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Croquet, 


Poker, 


Draughts, 


Quoits, 


Euchre, 


Rowing, 


Football, 


Shooting, 


Games, 


Skating, 


Golf, 


Swimming, 


Gymnastics, 


Tennis, 


Legerdemain, 


Whist, 


Ivacrosse, 


Wrestling, 


Magic, White, 


Yachting. 



GAMES, SPORTS AND PASTIMES. 

Angling, 

Archery, 

Athletics, 

Backgammon, 

Baseball, 

Billiards, 

Bowls, 

Bicycling, 

Chess, 

Cribbage, 

Cricket, 

By this time every student of the Home Educational 
Circle will have decided what vocation in life he intends 
to pursue, and it is desirable to map out courses of 
study on various special subjects. There is such an 
endless variety of occupations that it will be necessary 
to work on general lines to a certain extent. In study- 
ing any of the following departments the student 
should apply the lessons of perseverance and thorough- 
ness he has learned in the biography class, and cheer 
his work with the reflection that self-culture and success 
are the privileges of no special rank or class. They are 
open to all, especially in this glorious republic. Here 
the plow boy can become the President of the United 
States; the railroad brakeman, the manager and even 
the owner of the railroad. The lowest clerk in a little 
store may become a merchant prince by application 
and industry, and the greater his knowledge of men and 
affairs the better will be his prospect of success. Recall 
the hundreds of examples of men who have reached 
success, in intellectual achievements, or in amassing 
wealth, from the most humble beginnings, and resolve 
to accept no such thing as failure in your chosen calling. 
We shall now establish special colleges for the Farmer, 
the Artisan, the Merchant and the Professional man, 
representing the four great divisions of activity in civil- 
ized life, and the student in anv one of these fields will 



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find in the invaluable pages of the Britannica, contri- 
buted by the men of most experience in each branch, 
such a world of information as will give him an un- 
rivalled equipment. The earnest student in the Home 
Educational Circle can leave the home armed with every 
weapon to fight the stern battle of life. 



AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



All wealth comes originally from the soil. The farmer 
bears the weight of the universe upon his shoulders. 
He is the keystone of civilization. There is justice then 
in beginning this series of occupations with that of the 
farmer. And farming, when rightly understood, is 
both a profession and a science. To be successful the 
farmer must be something of a naturalist and some- 
thing of a chemist; he must know what soils are suited 
to the production of different crops, and he must know 
what fertilizers are best adapted to aiding in the culti- 
vation of each crop. Farm life is the healthiest and 
most invigorating in the world when the farmer is 
intelligent and knows how to produce the best results 
without exhaustive labor. The time has passed when 
farming can be successfully conducted without keen in- 
telligence and a thorough scientific knowledge, and the 
Britannica is rich in information which will enable a 
man to become a scientific farmer. Brains and ability 
are fully as necessary in farming as in any other pursuit 
and the American farmer is not and cannot be the "dull, 
senseless clod " of the poet. The roll of subjects here 
given should be diligently studied by the farmer, or the 
would-be farmer, and he can easily extend the list for 
himself. 



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STUDIES— FARMING. 



Agrarian Law, 


Flour, 


Oats, 


Agriculture, 


Forests, 


Oils, 


Animals, 


Free Trade, 


Parasites, 


Ant, 


Fruit, 


Pleuro-pneumonia, 


Arboriculture, 


Gooseberry, 


Potatoes, 


Atmosphere, 


Grasses, 


Poultry, 


Banking, 


Granges, 


Pumpkin, 


Barometer, 


Guano, 


Preserved Food, 


Bean, 


Heating, 


Rent, 


Bee, 


Honey, 


Salts, 


Birds, 


Hops, 


Sequoia, 


Botany, 


Horse, 


Sewage, 


Bread, 


Hunting, 


Sheep, 


Breeds, 


Hybridism, 


Silo, 


Building, 


Inheritance, 


Sugar 


Butter, 


Insects, 


Swan, 


Cattle, 


Insurance, 


Swine, 


Cheese, 


Irrigation. 


Tobacco, 


Clover, 


Jute, 


Transplanting, 


Coal, 


Labor Laws, 


Veterinary Science, 


Commerce, 


Land, 


Vegetable Kingdom, 


Cuckoo, 


Land Laws, 


Vine, 


Dairy, 


Landlord, 


Wages, 


Distillation, 


Law, 


Walnut, 


Dog, 


Lease, 


Warping, 


Education, 


Maize, 


Wheat, 


Emigration, 


Manure. 


Wool, 


Ensilage, ' 


Mensuration, 


Zoology. 


Flax, 


Murrain, 





ARTISAN DEPARTMENT. 

If farming is the keystone of civilization, manufact- 
uring is the corner stone. Without the artisan there 
would be no comforts in life, no luxuries, and not even 
what we have grown to look upon as necessities. 
Mankind would still be wearing skins of animals and 
sleeping in caves. The artisan, the man who works 
with his hands to fashion or help fashion the endless 
products of the inventive skill of the ages, occupies a 
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in the literal sense of the word. He can take to his 
heart the words of Daniel Webster: " Labor is one of 
the great elements of society, the great substantial 
interest on which we all stand." A good artisan, a 
skilled mechanic, has something to be proud of and the 
more skill he has the greater success he will achieve, 
the greater advancement. What the artisan should 
carefully avoid is the danger of plodding in a single 
groove, of becoming a mere machine. Study of the 
principles on which his work is based and the tools 
and forces with which he is operating and the 
materials he is using will enable the mechanic to become 
more than a mere machine. Intelligent study and self 
culture, joined to the practical knowledge which comes 
from his actual labor, will increase his earning capacity 
as well as his satisfaction in his work. Such study will 
enable him to develop into the foreman, the inventor, 
the contractor, the employer, the manufacturer. He 
may emulate or surpass the Whitneys, the Stephensons, 
the Franklins, Fultons, McCormicks, Edisons, Besse- 
mers and their like, who were not satisfied with the 
repetition of a daily task, but were constantly striving 
to improve old machines or invent new methods. 

In aiding the artisan, ambitious of self-culture, there 
is nothing to approach the Britannica, which will fur- 
nish him information on every conceivable subject con- 
nected with his trade. The dyer, cooper, foundryman, 
printer, miner, carpenter, mason, can all find plentiful 
stores of knowledge in its magic pages. For conveni- 
ence lists of studies have been arranged for workers in 
wood and workers in metals. 

STUDIES— WORKERS IN WOOD, ETC. 



Arch, 


Beech, 


Building, 


Architecture, 


Bookbinding, 


Canoe, 


Arithmetic, 


Botany, 


Carriage, 


Atmosphere, 


Bridge, 


Carving, 



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Cooperage, 


Hand Tools, 


Oak, 


Cork, 


Heat, 


Partition, 


Dockyard, 


India Rubber, 


Patents, 


Drawing, 


Ivory, 


Pine, 


Dyeing, 


Lamp, 


Railways, 


Enamel, 


Lathe, 


Roof, 


Encaustic Tiles, 


Lifts (Elevators), 


Saws, 


Fire, 


Lighting, 


Screw, 


Forests, 


Machine Tools, 


Shipbuilding, 


Fuel, 


Mahogany, 


Teak, 


Furniture, 


Measurement, 


Tile, 


Glass, 


Mensuration, 


Veneering, 


Hammer, 


Nail, 


Wood Carving. 


STUDIES 


—WORKERS IN 


METALS. 


Acoustics, 


Die Sinking, 


Metal Work, 


Agate, 


Dynamo, 


Mineralogy, 


Aluminium, 


Elasticity, 


Mines, 


Arch, 


Electricity, 


Nails, 


Arithmetic, 


Electrolysis, 


Perpetual Motion, 


Arms and Armor, , 


Embossing, 


Plate, 


Arsenal, 


Energy, 


Plated Ware, 


Artillery, 


Engraving, 


Platinum, 


Asphalt, 


Forge, 


Pneumatics, 


Assaying, 


Furnace, 


Pontoons, 


Barometer, 


Geometry, 


Potassium, 


Bell, 


Gold, 


Printing Press, 


Bellows, 


" Gold Beating, 


Projection, 


Bismuth, 


Gravitation, 


Pump, 


Boiler, 


Gunmaking, 


Safes, 


Brass, 


Hammer, 


Screws, 


Bronze, 


Horse Shoeing, 


Sewing Machines, 


Calculating Machines,Iron, 


Solder, 


Carbon, 


Japanning, 


Steam Engine, 


Calico Printing, 


Lacquer, 


Steel, 


Case Hardening, 


Lathe, 


Tempering Metals, 


Carving and Gilding, 


, Lead, 


Tin, 


Clocks, 


Leather, 


Tin Plate, 


Coal, 


Locks, 


Tricycle, 


Copper, 


Machine Tools, 


Valve, 


Crane, 


Malachite, 


Wire, 


Cutlery, 


Mensuration, 


Wire Rope. 



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These subjects need not and, in fact, should not, be 
studied in alphabetical order, but every artisan can 
tell for himself what are the elemental subjects of his 
trade and what are incidental. The artisan will find 
that a study of the lives of inventors and mechanicians 
will stimulate his ambition and that his knowledge 
cannot be too wide or too minute to aid his ambition. 
Self-culture will be to him a stepping-stone to success. 



COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT. 

Without Commerce, agriculture and manufacturing 
would be like a body without arms and legs. Com- 
merce is the connecting link between nations and 
between men. It is the instinct of barter and sale that 
has built the roads, railways and ships which make 
communication possible between all parts of the world. 
The owner of a little store and the proprietor of a great 
commercial house employing thousands of men; the 
expressman and the builder of a railroad, are all, in vary- 
ing degree, engaged in commerce, and the measure of 
success attained by each is defined by the skill w T ith 
which he anticipates or directs the wants of the public 
and supplies them. The wider his knowledge of ma- 
terials and of men the more successful is the merchant 
bound to be, and in this age of keen competition he 
should lose no opportunity to improve his mental 
equipment. The man who enters trade must not be 
content to study price lists but must widen his grasp of 
affairs by a comprehensive study of all the machinery 
of business. He cannot gain a personal experience of 
it all, life would be too short for that, but he can study 
its principles in books, and nowhere but in the Britan- 
nica will he find them all brought together, convenient 
to his hand. 



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In any branch of business the man who, by persistent 
self-culture, has gained a general knowledge, persever- 
ance, resolution, and an accurate realization of his 
own powers and his own limitations, will be able to 
far outstrip his competitor who has neglected self- 
culture. Let the merchant or the young man just 
starting in a business career, study the Britannica's 
articles on "Commerce," and follow it up by a study 
of the other subjects in the following list: 

STUDIES— GENERAL COMMERCIAL. 



Abandonment, 


Corporation, 


Railways, 


Acceptance, 


Credit, 


Real Estate, 


Account, 


Dollar, 


Sales, 


Adjustment, 


Exchange, 


Salvage, 


Adulteration, 


Fairs, 


Shipping, 


Arithmetic, 


Free Trade, 


Smuggling, 


Assets, 


Insurance, 


Tariff, 


Average, 


Interest, 


Taxation, 


Bankruptcy, 


International Law, 


Telegraph, 


Banks, 


Labor, 


Telephone, 


Bills, 


Lotteries, 


Textiles, 


Bookkeeping, 


Mensuration, 


Tonnage, 


Botany, 


Mineralogy, 


Trade, 


Bullion, 


Money, 


Trade, Balance of, 


Carriers, 


Monopoly, 


Trade, Boards of, 


Coinage, 


Numismatics, 


•Trades Unions, 


Commerce, 


Partnership, 


Value, 


Company, 


Patents, 


Wages, 


Contraband, 


Political Economy, 


Weights and 


Contract, 


Post Office, 


Measures. 


Co-operation, 







BRANCHES OF TRADE. 

It will be unnecessary to divide the general subject 
of commerce into its almost innumerable branches, for 
they all overlap each other. It is certain, however, 
that there is no subject of trade that is not clearly 
treated in the Britannica, and the merchant handling 



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any branch of goods, or the merchant handling hun- 
dreds of different articles, as in general and department 
stores, can find valuable information in this great 
work on all subjects in which he is specially interested. 
The dealer can learn new things about the articles he 
deals in, and in an infinite variety of ways can increase 
his general information on the subject of trade, and 
his success in his particular chosen field. 

The general subject may be subdivided to fit the 
needs of dealers into Food Supplies, Personal and 
Household Effects and Moneys and Values, for bank- 
ers, insurance men, etc., and for their use the following 
tables are recommended. 



STUDIES— FOOD, BEVERAGES, ETC. 



Alcohol, 


Distillation, 


Oils, 


Ale, 


Bggs, 


Olives, 


Alum, 


Fasting, 


Orange, 


Apple, 


Fisheries, 


Oysters, 


Arrow Root, 


Flour, 


Potatoes, 


Baking, Bread, 


Game, 


Poultry, 


Balsam, 


Gastronomy, 


Preserved Food, 


Beer, 


Gelatin, 


Rum, 


Bees, Honey, 


Gooseberry, 


Rye, 


Breeds, 


Grapes, 


Salt, 


Brewing, 


Grasses, 


Sugar, 


Butter, 


Gum, 


Tea, 


Cheese, 


Hops, 


Vegetables, 


Cherry, 


Maize, 


Vinegar, 


Cocoa, 


Malt, 


Vines, 


Coffee, 


Milk, 


Water, 


Cookery, 


Mushroom, 


Wheat, 


Cotton-seed Oil, 


Nutrition, 


Wine. 


Dietetics, 


Oats, 




STUDIES— PERSON AND HOUSEHOLD. 


Alpaca, 


Arms and Armor, 


Book, 


Amber, 


Asbestos, 


Bookbinding, 


Aniline, 


Bleaching, 


Bonnet, 



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Calico Printing, 


Hat, 


Pottery, 


Carpets, 


Hosiery, 


Ribbons, 


Clocks, 


India Rubber, 


Rope, 


Costumes, 


Ink, 


Seals, 


Cotton, 


Ivory, 


Sewing Machines, 


Diamonds, 


Jewelry, 


Shoemaking, 


Embroideries, 


Kite, 


Silk, 


Engraving, 


Lace, 


Soap, 


Feathers, 


Leather, 


Stove, 


Fibers, 


Linen, 


Terra Cotta, 


Fine Arts, 


Linoleum, 


Textiles, 


Flax, 


Manila, 


Tiles, 


Flowers, Artificial, 


Matches, 


Tobacco, 


Fuel, 


Needle, 


Velvet, 


Fur, ^ 


Oven, 


Watches, 


Furniture, 


Painting, 


Wax, 


Gems, 


Paper, 


Weaving, 


Class, 


Paraffin, 


Wire, 


Glycerine, 


Petroleum, 


Wool, 


Gold, 


Porcelain, 


Yarn. 


Gums, 







STUDIES— MONEY AND VALUES. 



Account, 


Excise, 


Mortgages, 


Arithmetic. 


Federal Government, 


Partnership, 


Banking, 


Finance, 


Railways, 


Bankruptcy, 


Free Trade, 


Real Estate, 


Bills, 


Gold, 


Safe Deposit 


Bookkeeping, 


Government, 


Companies, 


Building, 


Guilds, 


Sales, 


Bullion, 


Insurance: 


Savings Banks, 


Calendar, 


Fire, 


Silver, 


Check, 


Life, 


Stock Exchange, 


Contract, 


Marine, 


Tariff, 


Commerce, 


Interest, 


Taxation, 


CorOperation, 


Labor Laws, 


Trusts, 


Debt, 


Law, 


Value, 


Decimal Coinage, 


Lotteries, 


Wages, 


Dollar, 


Mining, 


Wealth, 


Exchange, * 


Mint, 


Weights and Measures. 


Exchequer, 


Money, 





34 SELF-CULTURE AND SUCCESS IN THE 

PROFESSIONAL DEPARTMENT. 

If agriculture is the keystone of civilization the pro- 
fessions are the cap sheaf. In that general term are 
comprehended the pursuits of all the arts and of all the 
sciences, the intellectual relations of men and of govern- 
ments. They have to do with the refinements of life, 
and any one of them, approached in the right spirit, is 
a fascinating study as well as a means of livelihood. 
Here the work of self-culture is never over for there is 
always more to learn and with widening knowledge 
there will be an ever-increasing zest for learning. Here 
perhaps more than in any other field does the Britan- 
nica excel all other authorities in the breadth of its 
information. It is a rich mine full of virgin gold where 
the student can find priceless aid in perfecting himself 
for the pursuit of any profession. Lawyer, doctor, 
engineer, architect, preacher, chemist or writer, artist 
or philosopher, can in these glowing pages find the 
cream of all human knowledge, in his special field. The 
young man or woman enrolled in the Home Educational 
Circle will find through an earnest study of the subjects 
here outlined an " open sesame" to success in every 
profession. Here more than elsewhere, however, is it 
necessary to ponder wisely in making a selection, to 
devote your lifetime to a profession for which you have 
natural taste and aptitude. 

LEGAL. 

The law is a noble profession and in the Britannica is 
a noble range of subjects for study. From the article 
on Law, which should be read first, the student can 
proceed to study of the various legal codes and to spe- 
cial articles like those on Marriage, Testamentary, 
Commercial, Marine, International and Municipal 
Laws. The subjects are presented clearly and concisely 



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and their study will give the embryo lawyer a better 
equipment than that of many an eminent advocate or 
jurist, of whose' life he can read in the biographical 
department, heretofore outlined. 



Abandonment, 

Abatement, 

Action, 

Admiralty, 

Adoption, 

Adulteration, 

Advocate, 

Affidavit, 

Agrarian Laws, 

Alien, 

Ambassador, 

Annuities, 

Appeal, 

Apprentice, 

Arbitration, 

Arraignment, 

Arrest, 

Assignment, 

Assumpsit, 

Attachment, 

Attorney, 

Balance of Power, 

Banking, 

Bankruptcy, 

Bill, 

Bookkeeping, 

Bribery, 

Building Societies, 

Calendar, 

Canon Law, 

Casuistry, 

Code, 

Commerce, 

Communism, 

Company, 

Conspiracy, 



STUDIES— LAW. 

Constitution, 

Constitutional law, 

Contempt of Court, 

Contraband, 

Corn Laws, 

Council, 

Court Martial, 

Crime, 

Criminal Law, 

Damages, 

Divorce, 

Emigration, 

Entail, 

Equity, 

Evidence, 

Exchange, 

Exchequer, 

Excise, 

Extradition, 

Federal Government, 

Feudalism, 

Finance, 

Fisheries, 

Fraud, 

Free Trade, 

Genealogy, 

Government, 

Guilds, 

Habeas Corpus, 

Heraldry, 

History, 

Homestead, 

Husband and Wife, 

Infanticide, 

Infants, 

Information, 



Inheritance, 

Injunction, 

Insanity, 

Insurance, 

International Laws, 

Intestacy, 

Jury, 

Labor, Labor Laws, 

Land Laws, 

Landlord and Tenant, 

Law, 

Libel, 

Lien, 

Limitations, Statute of, 

Liquor Laws, 

Magistrate, 

Medical Jurisprudence, 

Mortgages, 

Municipality, 

Murder, 

Navigation Laws, 

Parliament, 

Partnership, 

Partition, 

Patents, 

Penitentiary, 

Police, 

Political Economy, 

Poor Laws, 

Press Laws, 

Prison, 

Railways, 

Real Estate, 

Riparian Law, 

Roman Law, 

Salic Law, 



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Sea Laws, Tithes, Usury, 

Search, Right of, - Tort, Veto, 

Suicide, Trades Unions, Wages, 

Summary Jurisdiction, Treason, War, 

Summons, Treaties, Will, 

Sumptuary Laws, Trespass, Witness, 

Taxation, Trust, Women Laws. 

MEDICAL. 

Medicine and surgery are staffs on which men lean to 
an increasing extent. The expert in this dual profession, 
or in either branch, will always be sure of a bountiful 
measure of success. There is in the Britannica a copious 
supply of information on all medical subjects, the prin- 
cipal articles having been written by the profoundest 
medical scholars, and even the professional man with 
years of experience will find in them a vast amount of 
helpful knowledge. To the student of medicine the fol- 
lowing Britannica articles will be simply invaluable: 



STUDIES— MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 



Adulteration, 

Age, 

Alchemy, 

Alum, 

Ambulance, 

Amputation, 

Anaesthesia, 

Anatomy, 

Anodyne, 

Antiseptics, 

Apoplexy, 

Asthma, 

Athletics, 

Atmosphere, 

Atrophy, 

Arteries, 

Bacteria, 

Barometer, 

Bath, 



Beard, 

Biology, 

Blind, 

Botany, 

Bright's Disease, 

Bronchitis, 

Capillary Action, 

Cancer, 

Chemistry, 

Choral, 

Cholera, 

Circumcision, 

Climate, 

Corpulence, 

Cremation, 

Croup, 

Cupping, 

Deaf and Dumb, 

Dentistry, 



Delirium, 

Diabetes, 

Dietetics, 

Digestive Organs, 

Diphtheria, 

Disinfectant, 

Dislocation, 

Distillation, 

Drowning, 

Drunkenness, 

Dysentery, 

Dyspepsia, 

Ear, 

Electricity, 

Elephantiasis, 

Embryology, 

Epilepsy, 

Epidermis, 

Erysipelas, 



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Ether, 

Bye, 

Family, 

Fasting, 

Fever, 

Fire, 

Galvanometer, 

Gelatin, 

Germs, 

Giant, 

Gladiator, 

Glanders, 

Glycerin, 

Goitre, 

Gout, 

Gum, 

Gymnastics, 

Health Resorts, 

Heart Disease, 

Hernia, 

Histology, 

Homeopathy, 

Hospitals, 

Hydrocephalus, 

Hydropathy, 

Hydrophobia, 

Hygiene, 

Hysteria, 

Influenza, 



Insanity, 

Jaundice, 

Leprosy, 

Magnetism, Animal, 

Malaria, 

Marriage, 

Measles, 

Meningitis, 

Medicine, 

Mercury, 

Metamorphosis, 

Milk, 

Narcotics, 

Nutrition, 

Obstetrics, 

Ophthalmology, 

Opium, 

Paralysis, 

Parasitism, 

Pathology, 

Pharmacy, 

Phthisis, 

Physiogonomy, 

Physiology, 

Plague, 

Pleurisy, 

Pneumonia, 

Poisons, 

Public Health, 



Respiration, 

Rheumatism, 

Sanitary Science, 

Scarlet Fever, 

Sewage, 

Skeleton, 

Skin Diseases, 

Sleep, 

Small Pox, 

Smell, 

Spectacles, 

Stammering, 

Stethoscope, 

Stomach 

Sunstroke, 

Surgery, 

Torture, 

Touch, 

Tourniquet, 

Typhoid, 

Typhus, 

Vaccination, 

Vascular System, 

Ventilation, 

Vesical Disease, 

Veterinary Science, 

Vivisection, 

Water Supply, 

Yellow Fever, 



Closely allied to the medical profession is the science 
of chemistry, which is, in fact, in many directions the 
most practical of sciences. He who has a "precise know- 
ledge of the way in which medicines are made will be 
better able to appreciate their effects on the human 
system. Chemistry plays an important part, too, in 
many manufactures and the practical rewards of an 
expert knowledge of the subject are increasing yearly. 
The following course will be found both instructive and 
interesting. 



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STUDIES— CHEMISTRY. 



Aggregation, 


Chloral, 


Oxides, 


Alkali, 


Chlorine, 


Oxygen, 


Ammonia, 


Chloroform, 


Siphon, 


Ammoniac, 


Friction, 


Spectroscopy, 


Analysis, 


Gas, 


Sulphur, 


Aniline, 


Heat, 


Sulphuric Acid, 


Asbestos, 


Hydrogen, 


Tannin, 


Atom, 


Mercury, 


Tartaric Acid, 


Bunsen Burner, 


Molecule, 


Turpentine, 


Blow Pipe, 


Nitrogen, 


Ultramarine, 


Carbolic Acid, 


Nitro Glycerine, 


Vacuum, 


Carbon, 


Oxalic Acid, 


Variation and Selection 


Chemistry, 







ENGINEERING. 

The power to wield and direct the mighty forces of 
nature, to turn rivers from their courses, to annihilate 
space and time, to work wonders with steam and elec- 
tricity is a fascinating possession. The young man 
who desires to follow any of the numerous branches of 
engineering has an interesting future before him. Like 
Archimedes he can say that if he had a lever long enough 
he could move the earth, and perhaps he can get the 
lever. At least there are more ways than one of 
moving the world. 

The term engineering is a broad one. There are 
mining engineers, railroad engineers, military engineers 
and electrical engineers. There are others, but no matter 
how many there are, it is certain that they can all find 
profit and instruction in the pages of Britannica. There 
are certain general subjects that should be mastered by 
the followers of all branches of engineering, and they, 
with many special topics, will be found in the appended 
list, which is by no means exhaustive. When they have 
been mastered, the student will be easily able to follow 
the science of engineering much farther without leaving 
the Home Educational Circle, by looking up other 
subjects referred to in the articles mentioned. 



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STUDIES- 


-ENGINEERING AND 


MECHANICS. 


Acoustics, 


Electricity, 


Metal Work, 


Aeronautics, 


Embankment, 


Mineralogy, 


Air Engines, 


Euclid, 


Mining, 


Air pumps, 


Explosives, 


Nitroglycerin, 


Algebra, 


Fire, 


Observatory, 


Anchor, 


Flight, 


Patents, 


Annealing Glass, 


Flying Machines, 


Petroleum, 


Aqueduct, 


Forests, 


Phosphorus, 


Arch, 


Fortifications, 


Pneumatic, 


Archaeology, 


Fuel, 


Pontoons, 


Architecture, 


Furnace, 


Projections, 


Artesian Wells, 


Galvanometer, 


Pump, 


Asphalt, 


Gas, 


Pyramid, 


Atmosphere, 


Geodesy, 


Pyrometer, 


Atoms, 


Geology, 


Radiation, 


Attraction, 


Geometry, 


Railways, 


Balance, 


Glass, 


River, 


Ballast, 


Granite, 


River Engineering, 


Barometer, 


Gravitation, 


Roads and Streets, 


Barracks, 


Gun Cotton, 


Rope, 


Baths, 


Gun Powder, 


Screw, 


Block Machinery, 


Gutta Percha, 


Seismometer, 


Bore, 


Gyroscope, 


Sewerage, 


Brake, 


Hammer, 


Signals, 


Brick, 


Harbors, 


Smoke, 


Bridges, 


Heating, 


Smoke Abatement, 


Bronze, 


Hydro-mechanics, 


Sponges, 


Building, 


Ice, 


Statistics, 


Calender, 


India Rubber, 


Strength of Materials, 


Cantilever, 


Iron, 


Sulphur, 


Calculating Machines, Labor, 


Surface, 


Canal, 


Lifts, 


Surveying, 


Climate, 


Lighthouse, 


Teak, 


Coal, 


Magnetism, 


Technical Education. 


Compass, 


Marble, 


Telemeter, 


Conic Sections, 


Mathematical DrawingTelescope, 


Crane, 


and Modeling, 


Thermodynamics, 


Diving, 


Mathematics, 


Thermometer, 


Dock, 


Measurement, 


Tides, 


Drawing, 


Mensuration, 


Torpedo, 


Dynamics, 


Mercury, 


Traction, Electric, 


Dynamite, 


Metallurgy, 


Tramway, 



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Transit Circle, 


Turnpike Roads, 


Windlass, 


Triangulation, 


Ventilation, 


Wind Mills, 


Trigonometry, 


Vault, 


Wire Rope, 


Tunneling, 


Water Supply, 


Zinc. 



If the student's thirst for scientific knowledge is not 
satisfied by researches in engineering, chemistry, etc., 
the Britannica will be no less valuable in furnishing 
him with information on astronomy, biology, botany, 
meteorology, zoology and other sciences, with subordi- 
nate topics, to 'which the following list will be found a 
serviceable guide: 



STUDIES— OTHER SCIENCES. 



Abiogenesis, 

Aberration, 

Adaptation, 

Adhesion, 

Anatomy, 

Aurora Borealis, 

Astronomy, 

Bacteria, 

Biology, 

Climatology, 

Compass, 

Conductor, 

Conic Sections, 

Comet, 

Corona, 

Darwinian Theory, 

Dynamics, 

Eclipse, 

Earthquake, 

Electricity, 

Electric Light, 

Geodesy, 

Geology, 



Geometry, 

Glacial Period, 

Graphotype, 

Gunpowder, 

Heating, 

Metallurgy, 

Meteorology, 

Microscope, 

Mnemonics, 

Moon, 

Navigation, 

Nebular Theory, 

Observatory, 

Ornithology, 

Parallax, 

Parallels, 

Phonograph, 

Phosphorescence, 

Phonetics, 

Phrenology, 

Physiology, 

Pisciculture, 

Pneumatics, 



Protozoa, 

Psychology, 

Submarine Telegraphy, 

Telegraph, 

Telephone, 

Telescope, 

Thermometer, 

Thunder Storm, 

Tides, 

Tornado, 

Torpedo, 

Traction, Electric, 

Triangulation, 

Transit Circle, 

Trigonometry, 

Variable Complex, 

Vascular System, 

Wave, 

Wave Theory of Light. 

Weber's Law, 

Zodiac, 

Zoology. 



ARTISTIC. 

The heaven-born instinct to paint pictures or model 
statues in clay cannot be taught, but, having that 
instinct, it must be cultivated assiduously by learning 



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the principles of the arts of painting and sculpture and 
by studying from the best models. Here self-culture is 
supreme, for it develops individuality, which should be 
the aim of every artist. The world has little praise for 
the artist who is a mere copyist, however great his 
gifts. But given the artistic gift, lack of means or of 
time need not dishearten the struggling student. Some 
of the greatest artists of the world have had to strug- 
gle against as great or greater odds, and they did not 
have the inestimable benefits which the Britannica and 
the Home Educational Circle offer to the student of 
today by bringing within his reach the principles of the 
arts, a vast amount of information on subordinate 
topics, and the instructive examples given by the lives 
of great painters, sculptors, architects and musicians. 
These arts are enchanting subjects of study because 
they typify all that is most beautiful in nature. They 
can be studied at the home with the greatest conven- 
ience. There is no caste in art. The humblest can be- 
come the greatest. Some of the most famous artists 
have risen from low beginnings, and genius is the only 
test. The following subjects should be carefully read 
by the student: 

STUDIES -THE ARTS AND MUSIC. 

ARTS. 



Academy, 


Art, 


Chemistry, 


^Esthetics, 


Basilica, 


Chiar-oscuro, 


Alhambra, 


Birds, 


Church, 


Altar, 


Botany, 


Column, 


Amphitheater, 


Bronze Age, 


Cornice, 


Anatomy, 


Building, 


Costume, 


Angel, 


Butterflies, 


Crayon, 


Arabesque, 


Cartoon, 


Cross, 


Arch, 


Carving, 


Curve, 


Archaeology, 


Castle, 


Demonology, 


Architecture, 


Catacombs, 


Drawing, 


Armor, 


Cathedrals, 


Effigies, 



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Encaustic Tiles, 


Jewelry, 


Renaissance, 


Painting, 


Lithography, 


Rome, 


Engraving, 


Magic, 


Romanticism, 


Fine Arts, 


Mirrors, 


Round Towers. 


Flags, 


Mosaics, 


Royal Society, 


Florence, 


Mural Decoration, 


Schools of Painting, 


Frescoes, 


Numismatics, 


Sculpture, 


Gems, 


Painting, 


Stereoscope, 


Heraldry, 


Photography, 


Technical Schools, 


History, 


Phrenology, 


Temple, 


Indigo, 


Physical Science. 


Theater, 


Ink, 


Physiology, 


Venice, 


Inscriptions, 


Pigments, 


Zoology, 


Ivory, 


Poetry, 

MUSIC. 




Accent, 


Choir, 


Music Box, 


Acoustics, 


Conservatory, 


Organ, 


Automaton, 


Dance, 


Piano, 


Bagpipe, 


Glee, 


Speech Sounds, 


Ballads, 


Guitar, 


Trombone, 


Bell, 


Harmonic Analysis, 


Trumpet, 


Cantata, 


Harp, 


Tuning Fork. 


Chant, 


Lyre, 


Violin, 


Chime, 


Music, 

LITERARY. 


Voice. 



Literature is a wide realm of thought and learning. 
Taken as a profession, in however restricted a sense, it 
would still be too wide a field for any man, however 
bright a genius, to hope to excel in all, or very many of 
its branches. Poetry, the drama, romance, history, 
essays, philosophy — it is a life work usually to achieve 
honor and distinction in any one of them. When we 
include teaching, journalism, preaching, as well we may 
do, the field becomes as wide as the universe, as all 
human learning. The follower of this profession can 
sup at every flower of human knowledge. " Of making 
many books there is no end," and the student should 



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let his self-culture be deep and broad and be sure of his 
ability to add something to the stock of knowledge or 
put some the world already has in a new and more 
attractive form, before he succumbs to the temptation 
to join the ranks of writers. When he can do that he 
will not lack a welcome from the reading world. 

To a certain extent these studies include all others 
that have been mentioned in the preceding courses. The 
litterateur, the newspaper man and the teacher are 
usually expected to know everything or a little of every- 
thing. The subjects laid down in the following courses 
might be mastered to begin with. 



STUDIES— LITERATURE AND TEACHING. 



Academy, 

^Esthetics, 

Alphabet, 

American Literature, 

Analogy, 

Anthology, 

Apocalyptic Literature 

Acrostic, 

Alexandrian School, 

Allegory, 

Alliteration, 

Americanisms, 

Art, 

Astrology, 

Athens, 

Augurs, 

Augustan Age, 

Ballads, 

Bible, 

Bibliography, 

Book, 

Brahmanism, 

Buddhism, 

Caricature, 

Category, 

Celtic Literature, 



Charade, 

Church History, 

Cid, 

Conjugation, 

Copyright, 

Creeds, 

, Cryptography, 

Dictionary, 

Dogmatics, 

Drama, 

Dreams, 

Druidism, 

Education, 

Encyclopedia, 

England, Lang. & Lit. 

Epigram, 

Epitaph, 

Ethics, 

Examinations, 

Fine Arts, 

Folk Lore, 

France, Lang. & Lit., 

Gaelic Lang. & Lit., 

Games, 

Germany, Lang. & Lit. 

Grammar, 



Greek Literature, 

Heraldry, 

History, 

Hymns, 

Institute of France, 

Journalism, 

Kindergarten, 

Knighthood 

and Chivalry, 
Latin Language, 
Libraries, 
Metaphysics, 
Mysticism, 
Newspapers, 
, Numerals, 
Paleography, 
Pantomime, 
Periodicals, 
Philosophy, 
Poetry, 
Press Laws, 
Provencal 

Lang. & Lit. , 
Reporting, 
Rhetoric, 
Romance, 



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Roman Law, 

Roman Literature, 

Salutations, 

Sanskrit, 

Satire. 

Scandinavian 



Scholasticism, 

Scotch Literature, 

Semitic Lang. & Lit., 

Sonnet, 

Sophists, 

Speech Sounds, 



Tales, 

Talmud, 

Technical Education, 

Typography, 

Universities, 

Witchcraft, 



Lang. & Lit. Syriac Literature, Zend Avesta, 



STUDIES— PHILOSOPHY. 



Agnosticism, 

Analysis, 

Analytic Judgment, 

Aristotle, 

Apologetics, 

A Priori and A 



Gnosticism, 

Kant, 

Metempsychosis, 

Monachism, 

Neoplatonism, 

Peripatetics, 



Plato, 

Rationalism, 

Skepticism, 

Socialism, 

Sophists, 

Spiritualism. 



Posteriori, Philosophy, 



STUDIES— THEOLOGY AND RELIGION. 



Anabaptist, 

Anthropomorphism, 

Apostolic Fathers, 

Apotheosis. 

American Church, 

Baptists, 

Belief, 

Bible, 

Candlemas, 

Canticles, 

Cardinal, 

Carthusians, 

Catechism, 

Catechumens, 

Catholic Apostolic 

Church, 
Confession, 
Confirmation, 
Congregationalism, 
Conclave, 
Council, 



Creeds, 

Diocese, 

Dogmatic, 

Dunkers, 

Eschatology, 

Excommunication, 

Gospels, 

Heresy, 

Immaculate 

Conception, 
Image Worship, 
Independent Religion, 
Incense, 
Inspiration, 
Lutheran Church, 
Methodism, 
Missal, 
Mission, 
Mormons, 
Mysticism, 
Oneida Community, 



Popedom, 

Presbyterianism. 

Purgatory, 

Quakers, 

Reformation, 

Roman Catholic 

Church, 
Sacrifice, 
Talmud, 

Temporal Power, 
Theology, 
Theosophy, 
Theism, 
Totem ism, 
Trappists, 
Trent, Council of, 
Unitarianism, 
United Presbyterian 

Church, 
Universalist Church, 
Vatican Council. 



If the student who has read these pages will now turn 
them rapidly over, glancing at the numerous tables of 



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articles on the various subjects: biography, commerce, 
the professions, the arts, the sciences, etc., he will have 
an increased idea of the possibilities open to the student 
of the Americanized Encyclopedia Britannica in the 
Home Educational Circle. He will realize that it was 
no idle boast to say that the Britannica comprehends 
all knowledge and lays it before the student in the 
most convenient form. He will begin to see its great 
possibilities as an aid to self-culture and to success in 
any line of work. Equipped with such a store of learn- 
ing, or only with what applies particularly to his own 
particular field, the student can go out into the world 
confident of his ability to succeed. 

The battle for proficiency must be his own fight. A 
great point to be aimed at is to get the working qual- 
ity well trained. When that is done, the race will be 
found comparatively easy, and what difficulties and 
obstacles can be surmounted! 

No brave soul is deterred by obstacles. Where there 
is difficulty, the individual man must come out for bet- 
ter or for worse. Encounter with it will train his 
strength, and discipline his skill. The road to success 
may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the 
energies of him who would reach the summit. By expe- 
rience a man soon learns that obstacles are to be over- 
come by grappling with them; that the nettle feels as 
soft as silk when it is boldly grasped; and that the 
most effective help towards realizing an object is the 
moral conviction that we can and will accomplish it. 

If there were no difficulties there would be no success: 
if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be 
nothing to be achieved. 

Formed on the best examples, ripened on the best 
learning, the student of the Home Educational Circle 
will have a magnificent outfit for his life-work. Fa- 
cility will come with labor, and the principles he has 



46 SELF-CULTURE AND SUCCESS IN THE 

learned will become more thoroughly his own when he 
is putting them in practice. Let him not forget, either, 
that the Home Educational Circle never graduates its 
students. Its curriculum is as long as life itself, for 
there is always more to learn and the home will always 
remain the ideal place for learning. 

ALL THINGS POSSIBLE. 

If there are still those who doubt the possibility of 
mastering the arts and sciences without the aid of ex- 
pensive apparatus and the oral guidance of learned 
professors in schools and colleges; if there are still 
those who fear their ability to acquire knowledge and 
culture through their own efforts, who, in a word, con- 
sider " self-culture " a meaningless phrase, we address 
to them a few earnest words in parting, for they are 
sadly in need of help to recover from their monstrous 
error. 

There is no doubt that schools and colleges and 
learned professors make education much easier. If they 
have a fault it is in making the acquirement of knowl- 
edge too easy. Students who know that all difficult 
points will be explained to them, acquire the habit of 
leaning too much on their instructors, because it is so 
much easier than digging things out for themselves. 
For that reason facts we learn for ourselves remain 
with us, become part of our equipment, while the same 
things, learned in school, are very frequently forgotten. 
Such learning is superficial. So it will be seen that self- 
culture has a great advantage over the culture of 
schools and colleges, not in spite of its greater difficul- 
ties, but because of them. We prize most that which 
costs us most pains and trouble to obtain. 

Teachers are necessary in childhood to impart ele- 
mentary studies, but the idea that at a later period 



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their help is requisite for the learning of a science, art, 
or language, is a mischievous delusion. From the hour 
when a boy can read his mother-tongue he has it abso- 
lutely in his power, without classes, teachers or school 
buildings, to master all the learning of the world. By 
this is not meant that life would be long enough for 
such a purpose, literally, but as long as life lasts a per- 
son with ordinary mental capacity and industry can 
master all things he has time to undertake. 

In all ages this great possibility has cheered the poor 
and the friendless and enabled them, with industrious 
study, to take their places in history among the learned 
men of the world. It is more than ever possible now when 
such a great work as the Americanized Encyclopedia 
Britannica collects for the student, from all sources, and 
all parts of the world, all sciences and arts, the infor- 
mation which he would never have either time or means 
to seek out from its scattered original sources. By its 
aid thousands of young men are being enabled to pre- 
pare themselves by home study for mechanical, mercan- 
tile and professional pursuits even more thoroughly 
than they could do by attending school or colleges. The 
formation, by the publishers of this great work, of the 
Home Educational Circle, is in response to the univer- 
sal silent prayer of young men so situated, for some 
means of educating themselves. Such an opportunity 
has never before been offered, and the eagerness with 
which it is being seized shows both the great need and 
the great appreciation. 

Self-culture is not a meaningless phrase, but a living, 
breathing reality. It enlarges the ideals, elevates 
the thoughts and ennobles the labor of its possessor, 
no matter how commonplace or humble that labor may 
be. It gives a zest to life, a joy to the daily round of 
labors, which nothing can give so well as the constant 
intercourse with the great minds of the past and the 



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great thoughts and intellectual movements of the 
present. Be he poor in all else, the possessor of self- 
culture can count himself rich in the best of all riches. 

If, in spite of all his training, the student cannot reap 
that measure of success which he would like, the habits 
of study which he will have formed will be the best and 
dearest solace for any material disappointments. 
Learning is a prize for its own sake alone as well as for 
the rewards it will bring and, perhaps, the happiest of 
all men are those who, putting the ambitions of the 
world behind them, devote their lives to the delights of 
study. 

Self-culture is, after all, its own best reward. Other 
rewards will surely come, but the faithful student of 
the Home Educational Circle need have no regrets that 
he has not made the most of life. 



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